One long beep then 3 short beep!?

Daan Asten

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Hi,

I am new here having less knowledge of IT & looking for help.

My system specification is;
Win 7 (64bit)
i7-2600 Sandybridge CPU
Coolermaster V8 CPU cooler
Asus P8H67 MB
Asus GF-GTX650 Ti
Kingston DDR3, 1333-8GBx2

The PC was built in 2011.
Few months ago I experience some starting problem is;

When my room temperature is lower than 18C @ same time I start the PC and I can hear one long beep and 3 short beeps. Then the screen says Press F1... blah blah...
I press F1 and I see the CPU cooler speed and its lower than the minimum speed (600rpm)
I sat the minimum rpm into 400 and the pc starts normally. When the room temperature lower than I get the same problem, I needed to press F1 and going to bios and looking the live speed of the CPU cooler,
It was increasing slowly from 380 and when its goes over 400 then I can restart the pc & and it works.

Where is the problem exist? is it on CPU cooler or on MB?
This happens only during winter time. I do use heater when I feel bit cool inside my PC room.
This is bit crazy story but the PC technicien said "set the cooler RPM in to 200 and use your heater lol"

My question is ; why sometimes I get this beep problem, but I didn't had this problem since the PC was built.
Still the PC works perfectly.
Can some one help me with this issue?
Thanks
 
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That is wierd. I believe Asus (does my Ivy-Bridge anyways) uses Award bios, and according to them, the beep code of 1long-3short is an issue with your gpu.

That said, with those lowered speeds during cold temps, that's usually an issue related to the lubricant in the cpu fan. Your V8 uses a standard 120mm x 25mm fan, so you can swap that out with a 120mm case fan for a quick and simple test (if it's an original V8 and not the V8 GTS). If you do have the GTS version with the 2x fans, you are slightly stuck. The GTS uses cooler specific 120mm x 20mm fans, you'd need to replace them factory direct.

The rifle bearings in those fans are self lubricating, but if they get worn from years of use, the lubrication might be starting to fail...

Karadjgne

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That is wierd. I believe Asus (does my Ivy-Bridge anyways) uses Award bios, and according to them, the beep code of 1long-3short is an issue with your gpu.

That said, with those lowered speeds during cold temps, that's usually an issue related to the lubricant in the cpu fan. Your V8 uses a standard 120mm x 25mm fan, so you can swap that out with a 120mm case fan for a quick and simple test (if it's an original V8 and not the V8 GTS). If you do have the GTS version with the 2x fans, you are slightly stuck. The GTS uses cooler specific 120mm x 20mm fans, you'd need to replace them factory direct.

The rifle bearings in those fans are self lubricating, but if they get worn from years of use, the lubrication might be starting to fail, which would cause low fan speeds, more so exaggerated by lowered temps. I'd be looking at testing / replacing the fans, if not the whole cooler if the GTS fans cost too much to obtain.
 
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Daan Asten

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I have the Cooler master V8 early with single fan. Going to find a 120mm x 25mm fan because I think I have it on my CMS Sniper. Hoping that I can do the test successfully.
Thanks Karadjgne :)
 

Karadjgne

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120mm x 25mm is pretty much the same size as most modern case fans, you probably have 1 or 2 already in your case, common usage is one at the rear exhaust. For the test, you'd need a 4pin pwm fan, though, because 3 pin fans do not spin as slow (60% speed min) as pwm (20%). Any modern cpu cooler fan will be 4 pin pwm.
 

Daan Asten

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I go buy a new one, it cost just €9